Comments on: Transferring between IMAP mailboxes

Question: Transferring between IMAP mailboxes

cillit bang — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:30:12 -0800

I need a way to transfer a ton of old email from an old IMAP account to a new one. Dragging and dropping in both Thunderbird and Apple Mail keeps messing up. Can anyone suggest a tool that's designed for this purpose, or a more efficient method?

I have no way to access the old email but IMAP. The new mailbox is courier on a server I have root access to, so transferring straight in to the file system might be an option. Otherwise, Mac and Windows solutions for doing it all over IMAP are equally welcome.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:33:38 -0800

You could use getmail on the new account to get the mail from the IMAP server and put it into a Maildir that Courier can use.

There's a few imap-to-imap copy scripts out there like this one but I have no experience with them. Dragging via Thunderbird/Mozilla is all I've ever needed.

By: evariste

evariste — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:35:53 -0800

Looks like this will do the trick. Apparently the "archive" script won't work for Courier servers, but you just want the "migrate" part anyway...

By: xulu

xulu — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:49:40 -0800

I had a similar dilemma and my mail provider suggested IMAPSize. It worked great for me.